Beiyuan Flower Drum is a folk dance art that is popular in the surrounding areas of Li Village, Aodi Town, Wenxi County (Beiyuan is a general name for the region, consisting of three towns, Aodi, Xuedian and Yangyu, located in the north of Wenxi). It is generally active in festivals, temple fairs, house-guarding, birthday celebrations, wedding banquets, and other festivals, especially popular during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Beiyuan Flower Drum is played with a hard hammer. The traditional performance usually involves four or eight actors. The protagonist is a drummer, and there are four or six dancers holding hand gongs, both dancing and accompanying. After each natural section, the dancers sing and dance, singing a catchy folk tune, or the drummers improvise and recite allegro, most of which are jingles that are inspired by the scene and praise. In terms of musical instrument configuration, in addition to the flower drum, there is also a large gong, a large hairpin and a small hairpin, and four or six hand gongs. The tunes of Huagu are mostly folk tunes and ballads, such as flower cutting tune, swing playing tune, lotus embroidery tune, etc. Sometimes they are improvised and sung. The tune is divided into five sections, namely one hammer, slow two hammers, four hammers, tight two hammers, and five hammers. In addition to the chest drum, there are low drums (waist drums), leg drums, head drums, shoulder drums, etc., which can be played while standing, sitting, lying down, or hanging on a stick. The steps include water waves, forward rotation, oblique rotation, and imitation of ancient costume steps. Sometimes they can be turned and played, and the body, hands, eyes, legs, and fingers move horizontally at the same time. There are four turns of the number of columns: chain temperature, hanging column flower drum, side pressure, and continuous four columns. Beiyuan Huagu has always been closely linked with folk culture and is widely used in many folk customs or celebrations such as festivals, weddings, birthdays, funerals, and housewarming. Performers compete for ingenuity and compete for ability, each with new tricks to win praise. As artists continue to learn from local operas, acrobatics, martial arts, instrumental music, and folk songs, the original forms and contents have become richer, which has a high academic value for studying opera music, society, history, folk customs, etc. Information source: General Office of Shanxi Provincial Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: General Office of Shanxi Provincial Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)